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Second floor, right on the seafront at Westgate-on-Sea. The whole living room faces the view. Fold back the glass doors and you're on a full-width balcony looking straight over the sand of St Mildred's Bay, with the coast running off towards Margate. Two double bedrooms, the main one dual aspect with an en-suite, plus a lift and an allocated parking space. Beach huts and rock pools downstairs, fast trains to St Pancras from the station. Guide price £350K to £375K. home.uk/buy-me/139803 ❤️ For sale with Alexander Russell Estate Agents on Home

Modern method of auction: 1 in 39 homes for sale in Wolverhampton (WV) mention it in the advert. In London's postal districts, 1 in 438.

Bury's Hall in Ashill, Norfolk, dates from 1580, and those tall Tudor chimneys have been rising over the village ever since. Inside, the room you'll talk about afterwards is the games room: full-height oak panelling, a built-in oak bar, an open fireplace and a curved red banquette. Six bedrooms in the main house plus a two-bedroom annexe of its own. Outside there's an outdoor pool with a vine-covered pool house, an orchard, a pond and countryside on every side. Chain free at £1.4M. home.uk/buy-me/139801 ❤️ For sale with The Ivybridge Collection on Home

Price cuts: 48% of homes for sale in Brighton (BN) have had their asking price cut. In Liverpool (L), 33%, even though more of Liverpool's homes have been listed over 3 months.

A white-rendered cottage in Penrhiwllan, West Wales, where someone has built a reading nook on a mezzanine above the utility room, right under a Velux. Downstairs there's a stone-walled lounge with a log burner, a butler sink in the kitchen and a Rayburn in the dining room that can heat the water. Outside is the real draw: about 0.22 acres of south-facing garden with raised veg beds, a greenhouse and a run of sheds. Two bedrooms, a shower room on each floor, New Quay's harbour and Cardigan Bay dolphins within reach. £290K. home.uk/buy-me/139800 ❤️ For sale with Cardigan Bay Properties on Home

Same price, different council tax. Homes that sold for £275K to £325K in 2025: in the North East, 66% were Band D or above. In London, 13%. English bands still rest on 1991 values, so the same money buys a different bill depending on where you are. 80,947 sales, England.

To rent: a 2014 house in Hinxton designed by architects Snell David. Timber-clad gable at the back, a flint panel by the oak front door, and bi-folds that fold the whole dining room open to the terrace. Out there, silver birches and a raised corten steel pond. Four bedrooms over three floors, the main one with a Juliet balcony and en-suite, plus a log burner in the lounge and a second stove in the dining area. Oak-framed garage at the end of the garden. Part furnished, from early January, £2,250 a month. home.uk/rent-me/139799 ❤️ To let with Cheffins on Home

Half the houses for sale in the Bolton (BL) postcode area are leasehold: 818 of 1,637 where tenure is listed. In Bromley (BR) it is 6 of 1,506.

Arts and Crafts house in Reydon, next door to Southwold, with a big white semi-circular arch out front and diamond-paned leaded windows all over. Inside it is gloriously colourful: navy kitchen with a cream range cooker and a blue tiled splashback, and a garden room so full of plants it is basically a greenhouse you can sit in. Four bedrooms, including one on the ground floor with its own en-suite, three bathrooms and bi-folds out to a private garden. Gated, plenty of parking, and Southwold's cinema and cafés just up the road. £700K. home.uk/buy-me/139797 ❤️ For sale with @DurrantsResi on Home

Homes for sale in Great Britain whose adverts mention a serving hatch: 1,285. A pizza oven: 643. The 1970s still beats the garden party two to one.

Grade II* farmhouse caught halfway between Tudor and Jacobean, on the edge of a 200-acre lake outside Norwich. In the drawing room a carved stone overmantel sits above the wood burner, and a glass panel in the floor looks straight down the original brick-lined well. The main house has five bedrooms, and three self-contained annexes bring it to ten, currently run as holiday lets bringing in around £65K a year. Orchard, covered outdoor kitchen with a pizza oven, and a lake view from the second bedroom. Lodge Farm, Bawburgh, £1.85M. home.uk/buy-me/139796 ❤️ For sale with The Ivybridge Collection on Home

Want more room for your money? Buy old. Outside London, a terrace built 1900-1929 sold for a median £2,042 per square metre in 2025. One from the 1980s: £3,833. Nearly twice the space for the same money, and the older one is bigger too (83 vs 62 m²). 231,100 sold terraces, England and Wales.

Edwardian semi in New Malden's Beverley Hills with all the good bits kept: red brick, twin bays, a stained-glass front door and a turned-spindle staircase. Then out the back, a full-width kitchen-diner with a long quartz island, roof lights and bifolds folding right open onto a raised deck. Four bedrooms over three floors, two bathrooms and a loft principal room looking out over the gardens. Beverley Park around the corner, the station and high street a short walk, Richmond Park a short cycle. £1.225M. home.uk/buy-me/139795 ❤️ For sale with FarleyWood on Home

More homes sold for £1M or more in SW London postcodes last year (3,038) than in all of northern England (1,177). More than twice as many. Land Registry sold prices, 2025.

One family has owned this detached Victorian house in Worthing's Poets District since the 1960s, and before them it belonged to the first Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Red brick, twin bays, a green front door, stained glass on the landing and a mahogany banister rising through a proper Victorian hall. Seven bedrooms, three receptions and a long walled lawn out the back, ten minutes' walk from the station and the seafront. It hasn't been modernised in a while, which is exactly the opportunity. £1.15M, no onward chain. home.uk/buy-me/139794 ❤️ For sale with @JacobsSteel on Home

A second bathroom outranks a step up in house type. Outside London, a 3-bed terrace with two bathrooms asks £325K; a 3-bed semi with one asks £275K. Asking prices, England and Wales.

Seven bedrooms in local Dorset stone, tall sashes, high ceilings, and the whole Blackmore Vale laid out in front of the sitting room and dining room windows. Out back there's a heated pool on a stone terrace, and the garden room is a full snooker room with a bar and bi-folds onto the lawn. Three acres, a paddock, a stone cottage in the grounds and a fountain on the gravel forecourt. Solar panels and air source heat keep it modern underneath. £1.5M, just outside Sturminster Newton. home.uk/buy-me/139793 ❤️ For sale with Pegg Estates on Home

The Draw no.54: what the street name says about the asking price. A 3-bed house on a Lane asks £360K. On a Street, £240K. Lanes have more detached houses, but like for like the gap holds: a terraced 3-bed asks £300K on a Lane and £200K on a Street. And a Hill asks twice as much as a Terrace.

A stone-built cottage bungalow behind a little stone bridge, five bedrooms, a log fire in the sitting room and about seven acres of Warwickshire field rolling away behind it. That alone would do it. But it also comes with full planning permission for a second, contemporary home of around 4,000 sq ft with a triple garage. So you could live in one and build the other, or keep both and move the parents in. Pub and café in the village, Leamington and Stratford about ten miles off, and £1.15M for the house, the permission and the land. home.uk/buy-me/139792 ❤️ For sale with Etta James on Home

The typical London one-bed is on at £400K. For less than that, 3,606 houses with five or more bedrooms are for sale elsewhere in England and Wales. Asking prices.